A cron job is a command, that functions conveniently in the background on a predefined time period and it also runs a script inside a hosting account. There aren't any limits regarding what the script can be - PHP, Bash, Perl, etc., what it can do, or what exactly your file extension will be. A few examples are mailing a daily report which contains all of the client activity within a specified site, creating a routine backup or erasing the files in a certain folder. These types of tasks and / or almost every other script can be executed on time intervals picked by the end user - each couple of minutes, hours or days, and even monthly or annually according to the particular intent. Making use of cron jobs to automate various elements of administrating a website saves a lot of time and efforts.
Cron Jobs in Cloud Hosting
The Hepsia Control Panel, that is included with all of the cloud plans, will help you to create cron jobs in a few easy steps even when you haven't ever employed such a option previously. After you sign in and visit the Cron Jobs section where you'll be able to assign background tasks, you just need to paste the system access path to PHP, Pyton or Perl with respect to the script that you will run, type the path within your account to the specific script file and after that choose how often your cron job has to be carried out. For the aforementioned, you can use the basic mode and choose the days, hours, minutes, etc. using straightforward drop-down menus, or if you are more experienced, you can take full advantage of the advanced mode and specify the time interval with numbers and asterisks i.e. the typical method that you might have used with various Control Panels.
Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Servers
You'll be able to set up as many cron jobs as you need if you host your sites in a semi-dedicated server account from our company and it doesn't take more than one minute to do that. In contrast to various web hosting Control Panels where you should enter commands and use numbers and asterisks on a single line so that you can create a cron job, the Hepsia Control Panel features an intuitive interface where you are able to choose how often a new cron has to run by using simple drop-down menus to select the minutes, hours, weekdays, etc. The two things which you'll need to submit manually are the folder path to the script file which should be executed along with the command path to the programming language system files in the account (PHP. Perl, Python). You'll be able to copy and paste the aforementioned from the Server Information part of your web hosting Control Panel, therefore it will not take you more than a couple of clicks to create a cron job in your semi-dedicated account.